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OFF TOPIC probabilities for poker dice full house and straight

Posted By: leobueno
Date: Sunday, 20 March 2011, at 12:32 p.m.

We play a home-made dice game that combines the basic elements of Poker and Yahtzee.

The objective is to build the best possible "hand" in up to three rolls of 5 dice. A player rolls all 5 dice and then decides which to keep and which to re-roll, if any, in a second and then a third roll.

This is what I think the hand rankings should be: Five of a Kind / Four of a Kind / Straight / Full House / Three of a Kind / Two Pair / One Pair.

The question is whether a "full house" in this game, as in Poker, outranks a "straight".

I don't have the math skills to do the probabilities calculation or the time to write a simulation program to do an estimate, so will appreciate your help in solving this puzzle.

Thanks.

Messages In This Thread

• OFF TOPIC probabilities for poker dice full house and straight
  leobueno -- Sunday, 20 March 2011, at 12:32 p.m.
  • OFF TOPIC probabilities for poker dice full house and straight
    Tom Keith -- Sunday, 20 March 2011, at 2:00 p.m.
    • OFF TOPIC probabilities for poker dice full house and straight
      leobueno -- Sunday, 20 March 2011, at 2:16 p.m.
      • OFF TOPIC probabilities for poker dice full house and straight
        Tom Keith -- Sunday, 20 March 2011, at 2:44 p.m.
        • OFF TOPIC probabilities for poker dice full house and straight
          leobueno -- Sunday, 20 March 2011, at 4:28 p.m.
          • OFF TOPIC probabilities for poker dice full house and straight
            Stein Kulseth -- Sunday, 20 March 2011, at 5:11 p.m.